How To Install prokka on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prokka on Kali Linux.

What is prokka

prokka is:

A typical 4 Mbp genome can be fully annotated in less than 10 minutes on a quad-core computer, and scales well to 32 core SMP systems. It produces GFF3, GBK and SQN files that are ready for editing in Sequin and ultimately submitted to Genbank/DDJB/ENA.

There are three methods to install prokka on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install prokka Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install prokka using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install prokka

Install prokka Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install prokka using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install prokka

Install prokka Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install prokka using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prokka

How To Uninstall prokka on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the prokka package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove prokka

Uninstall prokka And Its Dependencies

To uninstall prokka and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prokka

Remove prokka Configurations and Data

To remove prokka configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge prokka

Remove prokka configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove prokka configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prokka

Dependencies

prokka have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• prokka website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prokka package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.